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  If a medicine is too expensive, should a hospital make its own?

  When the price of a medicine rose to an unacceptable level, pharmacist Marleen Kemper started making it herself.

  01 October 2019

  • Body, Disease, Ethics
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  Why is it so hard to stop people dying from snakebite?

  There’s not enough antivenom to go round. But even if we had what we needed, would people use it?

  17 September 2019

  • Health, Body, Disease
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  The heart-stopping reality of cardiac arrest

  Researchers are trying to understand how best to help more people survive and recover from in-hospital arrests.

  13 August 2019

  • Disease
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  Giving breath to the issue: What happened after our stories on dysphagia?

  Bryn Nelson’s no-holds-barred articles on people who can’t swallow normally hit a chord with our readers.

  05 March 2019

  • Disease
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  Strep A bacteria kill half a million a year. Why don’t we have a vaccine?

  Strep A is among the deadliest pathogens in the world – yet we’ve never prioritised making a vaccine.

  12 February 2019

  • Body, Disease
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  Gene therapies only work for some people – so how do we fix this?

  Gene therapies could cure a number of illnesses, but often our immune systems get in the way.

  15 January 2019

  • Body, Disease, Genetics
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  The DNA detectives hunting the causes of cancer

  To find out why rates vary across the world, scientists are searching for cancer's genomic fingerprints.

  25 September 2018

  • Disease, Genetics
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  How close are we to a cure for Huntington’s?

  Peter Forbes reports on the potential first treatment for this devastating condition.

  06 March 2018

  • Disease, Genetics, Neuroscience
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  Cancer I could deal with. Losing my breast I could not

  Joanna Moorhead on the decision she made not to have a mastectomy.

  04 February 2018

  • Disease

• Smoothfood: dinner, but not as you know it

  A film about meals that look, smell and taste just like they should, but that are much easier to eat than regular food.

  05 April 2016

  • Health, Disease

• The diet that can cure epilepsy

  A special diet for people with epilepsy will often stop or reduce their seizures.

  22 March 2016

  • Health, Disease

• How aspirin does more than kill pain

  Could a simple anti-inflammatory drug like aspirin really help keep us all healthier?

  22 March 2016

  • Health, Disease

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